[Event] [Apr 23, 2012] Melee Monday (TF2 Server)

[Dave]

This event is for the TF2 Server. Melee only! Practice your bludgeoning skills on other Forumites!

 

[figmentPez]

Do we have some sort of mod to force melee-only? Once you get more than about 8 people on a server it's really hard to keep everyone on the honor system.

 

[Dave]

Nah. Other than the fact that I'm hosting it and if someone complains or I see someone killed someone else (the deaths do show on the screen) then I'll warn then boot them.

I may make a profile server with a melee mod on it, though.

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

I believe it's possible to set up a whitelist in the server cfg files

 

[Dave]

It is. And I'm probably going to have to do that. Of course, I also believe I can do that right from in-game using the Admin console.

 

[Bumble the Boy Wonder]

Forgive my ignorance, but this would be 4pm pacific time, correct?

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

iirc, 5 pm

 

[AshburnerX]

Why don't you just turn on Medieval Mode? Only two weapons are allowed outside of melee ones, the Crusader's Crossbow and the Huntsman.

 

[figmentPez]

Why don't you just turn on Medieval Mode? Only two weapons are allowed outside of melee ones, the Crusader's Crossbow and the Huntsman.

Isn't that limited to a single map, though?

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

because 3 hours of degroot keep every week sounds awful

 

[AshburnerX]

Is it only for one Map? Lemme go check.

Looking at the wiki, we CAN turn it on for other maps. Just need to input tf_medieval 1 on the Live Console.

 

[Dave]

Yup.

 

[Shegokigo]

Will be passing on this event.

Yes I'm posting just to complain.

 

[Bumble the Boy Wonder]

I might be able to 6catch the end of this, but having never played a medieval map before, I can only assume 75% will be huntsman snipers lol

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

Huntsman snipers, crossbow medics, demoknights, equalizer soldiers, and BACKSCRATCHER!

 

[Shegokigo]

Huntsman snipers without ALOT of previous skill and practice get destroyed by just about everything on Medieval Mode. The "beast" is a Demo Man with Targe + Ulla Caber.

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

oh, and kgb heavies

but more importantly, BACKSCRATCHER!

 

[Bumble the Boy Wonder]

It should be vanilla melee

 

[Shegokigo]

It should be vanilla melee

Yeah, only Spies and Heavies worth playing!

Beh dunno why I'm saying anything, Melee Only is teeeeeerrible.

 

[Bumble the Boy Wonder]

Melee just isn't a balanced game.
...Not to say a game with all-weaps is balanced, but at least you have a chance as any given class.

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

いt’っsつぴdふん。感t度いt遠御f店、部tいt’spレッtyごおｄ音おっかしおん。

 

[Bumble the Boy Wonder]

How dare you, sir...

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

haha, oops. Forgot to set my input method to direct input instead of hiragana.

It's stupid fun. Can't play it all the time, but it's pretty good once a week.

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

But yeah, everything you can't read in that post was insulting your mother.

 

[Dave]

The reason we are having melee Monday is for those of us unpracticed people to do so with weapons that are considerably less used. It's something everyone needs to practice at at one point or another.

 

[Bumble the Boy Wonder]

You learn the same way we all did!

By getting bitched at by randoms for being the jerk running around with a Holy Mackerel!

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

It's just timing. There's not much to it. It'd be better to learn maps, how to aim, and the general strategy for whatever class you're playing as.

 

[bhamv3]

I agree melee only is great for a hoot. I was once on a server with about 10 total people on it, and we agreed to play melee only until more players arrived. It was on a Payload map, which gave the attackers a slight advantage, but it was great fun nonetheless.

 

[Covar]

I'll see if I can get on tonight. Installed an SSD onto my desktop this weekend, TF2 now loads super fast.

 

[AshburnerX]

It went pretty well tonight. Also, STAY OUT OF MY WAY. My 28 collected heads say you must obey me!

 

[Dave]

Yeah, gonna have to either password the planned events or make sure someone with Admin rights can blast people out if necessary. Also, next week I'll be sure to have more maps on the profile.

 

[Bumble the Boy Wonder]

I dunno about blocking it, we gained a new member from tonight's game!

 

[figmentPez]

I dunno about blocking it, we gained a new member from tonight's game!

He's stalking me for my Max hat.

 

[Allen who is Quiet]

if you give your max hat to me, he won't stalk you for it anymore

 

[AshburnerX]

Yeah, gonna have to either password the planned events or make sure someone with Admin rights can blast people out if necessary. Also, next week I'll be sure to have more maps on the profile.

You need to file a ticket with them and see if they can get me added as an admin. Because I did everything right, but I still don't have access.